Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.) — Mythoi

Motif

Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.)

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C922

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 376 n. 19a.

Within the index

Filed under Death for breaking tabu.

1 finer motif beneath it

Death by choking for breaking tabu

Filed beside it

Death of children for breaking tabu Death of wife for breaking tabu Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) Death by drowning for breaking tabu Death by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.) Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabu Man (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabu Burning as punishment for breaking tabu Death from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu Death for breaking tabu

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Tabu: looking into box (Pandora)

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